Corrections: December 26, 2015

Dec. 26, 2015

INTERNATIONAL

The Saturday Profile article on Dec. 5, about Jan Böhmermann, a German political comic who aims to restore the top-flight Jewish humor of 1930s Berlin to a country that bears the weight of Nazi history, imprecisely attributed a phrase he used when criticizing the German interior minister for refusing to say why he canceled an international soccer match after the Paris terror attacks. The phrase, “might unsettle parts of the population,” was Mr. Böhmermann’s paraphrase of the minister’s actual remarks, not a direct quotation. (The minister, Thomas de Maizière, said, “Parts of my answer might unsettle the population.”)

BUSINESS DAY

An article on Monday about the inflation-adjusted price of the gifts in “The 12 Days of Christmas” misstated government data on consumer prices and a correction in this space on Thursday described the data incompletely. The Consumer Price Index was up 0.5 percent over the previous 12 months, not 0.2 percent, and the figure referred to an increase in the index, not simply to the index.

MAGAZINE

A picture on Page 26 this weekend in the special Lives They Lived issue, with a profile of Amelia Boynton Robinson, was published in error. It shows Gloria Richardson, not Ms. Boynton Robinson.

OBITUARIES

An obituary on Thursday about Fernande Grudet, who under the name Madame Claude operated a deluxe call-girl ring in Paris in the 1960s and ’70s, gave an incorrect conversion in some copies of francs into dollars. The equivalent of 100,000 francs in 1975 was about $20,000 — the amount she was said to take in monthly — not $500,000.

SPORTS

An Associated Press report in the college basketball roundup in some editions on Dec. 17 about the South Carolina women’s team victory over Hampton referred incorrectly to South Carolina’s run of 10-0 starts in some copies. South Carolina has started 10-0 in three of the last four seasons, not in four straight seasons. (South Carolina won its first nine games in 2013-14.)

OPINION

An Op-Ed essay on Dec. 17 about gift-giving misstated the occupation of the authors of a study in the journal Social Cognition on the effects gifts have on recipients. They are social psychologists, not sociologists.

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